Silver Pebbles

A Lebanese man carrying diamonds in his bag is on the train from Frankfurt to Basel, a drug mule on the return journey. At the Basel train station, Inspector Hunkeler is waiting for him after a tip-off from the German police. The courier manages to flush the stones away in the station WC.

Erdogan, a young Turkish sewage worker, finds the diamonds in the pipes under the station. To him, they mean wealth and the small hotel he always wanted to buy near his hometown. To his older Swiss girlfriend, Erika, the stones signify the end of their life together. She knows that Erdogan has a wife and children in Turkey.

For the courier, finding the stones is a matter of life and death. His employers are on their way to 'tidy things up'. For Hunkeler, the stones are the only way to get to the people behind the drug trade. They turn out to include not only the bottom-feeding drug gangs, but also bankers and politicians very high up the Basel food chain.

Silver Pebbles dives into a world where the stakes are high, and the line between law enforcement and criminals is perilously thin.